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🚨New paper: "What Makes LLM Agent Simulations Useful for Policy Practice?" @simile_ai is making a great launch, but can these LLM agent simulations actually help real institutions make better decisions? We spent a year working with policymakers to answer this simple question. The answer is yes—but perhaps not how you'd expect. 👇 THREAD 👇 [Link to paper: arxiv.org/abs/2509.21868] [1/n]

New pub! My first solo-authored paper is online at @polcommjournal . This paper identifies a novel phenomenon, performative propaganda engagement, to understand the impact of digital propaganda on celebrity fans and broader authoritarian publics. More in🧵tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Hello colleagues and friends! ✨Please help repost and share ✨: I am officially on the job market for 𝘁𝗲𝗻𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗰𝗸 𝗮𝘀𝘀𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗳𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗼𝗿 and 𝗶𝗻𝗱𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗿𝘆 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝗿𝗼𝗹𝗲𝘀 where I can apply my research to real-world AI safety challenges!! My work combines empirical studies and system building to explore topics such as 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗽𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗶𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗔𝗜 (𝗥𝗔𝗜), 𝗔𝗜 𝘀𝗮𝗳𝗲𝘁𝘆, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗵𝘂𝗺𝗮𝗻-𝗔𝗜 𝗰𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗮𝗯𝗼𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻. To this end, I develop tools and processes to support responsible AI in real world industry settings, particularly in the contexts of 𝗔𝗜 𝗮𝘂𝗱𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴, 𝗿𝗲𝗱-𝘁𝗲𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗴, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗶𝗺𝗽𝗮𝗰𝘁 𝗮𝘀𝘀𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁.

Excited to have presented our paper on AI selfishness at #EMNLP2025! 📄 Paper: aclanthology.org/2025.emnlp-mai… We found that advanced LLMs become greedier when equipped with reasoning capabilities—a critical concern as we develop more capable AI systems. Our work has generated significant discussion in the research community and media. To name a few: - TribLive: CMU researchers find selfish traits in cutting-edge AI (triblive.com/local/cmu-rese…) - Tech Xplore: As AI grows smarter, it may also become increasingly selfish (techxplore.com/news/2025-10-a…) - CMU SCS: Is AI Becoming Selfish (cs.cmu.edu/news/2025/self…) - PsyPost: Smarter AI models show more selfish behavior (psypost.org/smarter-ai-mod…) - BioEngineer org: Is Artificial Intelligence Developing Self-Interested Behavior? (bioengineer.org/is-artificial-…) - Knowridge Science Report: The smarter AI gets, the more selfish it becomes, study warns (knowridge.com/2025/11/the-sm…) - AZoAI: Smarter AI, Selfish AI: Carnegie Mellon Study Reveals Downside Of Machine Reasoning (azoai.com/news/20251102/…) - Scitke: As AI Develops Further, it Could Become More Self-Serving (scitke.com/as-ai-develops…) We need socially intelligent AI that balances individual optimization with collective benefits. Happy to discuss further—DMs open!

Hello! We are researchers from Carnegie Mellon University. We are looking for AI professionals based in Europe with industry experience in designing Generative AI products and services to share their insights in an interview study. 👉 Sign up here: forms.gle/ePB3wgTZEzYywR…

Hello! We are researchers from Carnegie Mellon University. We are looking for mental health professionals or end users who have sought mental health support from LLM-based products to participate in a survey and workshop study. (Details in flyer) Sign-up: forms.gle/AHniGREb1PuXng…

@renwenzhang @wkwschool @NUSingapore @CNMnus Congrats Renwen. Looking forward to ur fascinating work in NTU

Excited to join @wkwschool at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore as Assistant Prof! Grateful for 4 amazing years @NUSingapore @CNMnus💛 Now recruiting PhDs & postdocs for SWEET Lab, where we study & design tech to improve well-being & relationships - DM me if interested!

Ever had to write an email, message, or note while walking, cooking, or commuting but found dictation tools fall short? StepWrite augments your ability to turn fleeting thoughts into structured text, hands-free and eyes-free. Our paper will be presented at #UIST2025

🚨 AI red teaming is key to spotting risks in high-stakes systems — but what does *effective* automation really look like alongside human expertise? 👉 Read here: doi.org/10.1145/3731866

Thank you all at #ICA2025

🚨 New Preprint! 🚨 Smarter LLMs are more selfish. We show reasoning-enhanced models significantly prefer greed over cooperation. The more LLMs reason, the worse they cooperate. 👇 THREAD 👇 [Link to paper: arxiv.org/abs/2502.17720] [1/n]

🚨 New Paper! 🚨 "Groups that communicate diverse information make wiser decisions." Right? Not always—for LLMs, just like humans. We bring this scrutiny to AI by adapting the Hidden Profile paradigm from social psychology to assess how multi-agent LLMs actually reason together. 👇 THREAD 👇 [Link to paper: arxiv.org/abs/2505.11556…] [1/n]

John Zimmerman presenting at #CHI2025 Catch him and Ask about our AI Literacy paper — best paper honorable mention @meslami2 We thank @d19fe8 @koedinger @amyogan @HanZiyuh @du_yanlin for their feedback on this journey. programs.sigchi.org/chi/2025/progr…

@steverathje2 @Carnegie_Mellon @cmuhcii Welcome to HCII, so glad you join🙌

I'm thrilled to announce that I'll be joining @Carnegie_Mellon as an Assistant Professor of Human-Computer Interaction (with a courtesy joint appointment in Social and Decision Sciences) in 2026!

@renwenzhang @zichengstephy @EJLEESG Congrats:)

Grateful and excited that our #CHI25 paper on prosociality towards AI received the Best Paper Award 🏆. Huge congrats to @zichengstephy for leading this work, and thanks to my amazing collaborators @EJLEESG, Yugin Tan, and Naomi Yamashita. I’m so lucky to be part of this team!

@dagny_suen @CommDeptMSU @davidmmarkowitz Congrats 🎊 You deserve

Today marks my first day as a 25-year-old, and I’m beyond excited to announce that I’ll officially be joining Michigan State University in the fall to start my PhD journey! Looking forward to this amazing new chapter and all the adventures ahead! 🎉 @CommDeptMSU @davidmmarkowitz

@BiyingWuOuyang interesting 😆

I’ve newly trained my personal AI assistant. Welcome to interact with me😆 biyingwu.com #AcademicTwitter

Our CHI'25 paper introduces "user-driven value alignment" -- where users actively re-align AI to reflect their values. #chi2025

Received ChatGPT-like reviews? They may have boosted your paper's odds of being accepted! In a quasi-experimental study of a top AI conference, ICLR, we measured the effect of AI-assisted peer reviews on scores and acceptance rates. (Led by @russogiusep) arxiv.org/abs/2405.02150

💡 Our study extends research on collective algorithmic action and its implications for platform governance.

🚀 Our study headed to #CHI2025 in Yokohama! doi.org/10.48550/arXiv… Through an ethnography, we examine how millions of fans mobilize to influence social media algorithms. Thanks for the collaborators: Yuhang Zheng, @XianzheFan, @Blingblingzhang, @luzc08